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Mar 14th

Mauritanian president to attend Copenhagen climate summit

The Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, will head his country's delegation to the climate change summit, planned for 6-17 December in Copenhagen, Denmark, official sources told PANA here Saturday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and former US vice-president turned climate campaigner Al Gore will be among the 700 delegates taking part at Copenhagen's Bella Centre.

The summit is to find a way to strike an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases as the world is facing its deepest economic crisis for decades.

Its aim is to approve a new global warming treaty for the period after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's obligations to cut carbon emissions will expire.

Nouakchott - Pana 06/12/2009